Discuss the pro and cons of negotiating a POLT a Greene to with the county and the alternative options of mounting legal defense to the tax challenge?

Automatic Zoom HHA's Dilemma: Be a Good Citizen or Fight Extortion Deborah Williams, the CEo and President of the nonprofit Harristown Home for the Aged responded to the knock on the door of her office with a "Come in, Steve," recognizing the distinctive knock of her CFO. "This is not good," began Steve Rightgold, his usually deadpan face betraying signs of the anxiety he was feeling about the news he was about to relay to his boss. He brandished a single piece of paper and thrust it out to Deborah She skimmed it and let out an audible groan. "Not what we need now," she told him. For nearly a decade, Steve had competently kept financial operations running smoothly in a complex environment that required the constant juggling of nearly a dozen different accounts to maintain a positive cash flow situation for the facility. In recent months, accomplishing this successfully had become more of a struggle. With budget cuts beginning to be implemented by the State's Medicaid program and with many of the home's private pay residents falling behind on paying their invoices, HHA was already in financial distress, as were virtually all of its competitors, nonprofit and for-profit alike. In theory, HHA was a charity, exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(cX3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and also exempt from paying local property taxes levied by the county, city of Harristown, and the Ha School District. The reality, as Ms. Williams was often reminded was that HHA doled out only a minimum level of charity to the needy. And by any calculation that amount was usually less than that provided by most of the for-profit competitors in her community Perhaps at one time in its early history. in the early 20th century, HHA had operated li a traditional charity, considering itself to be old-age home, accepting residents who had place else to go regardless of whether they needed health care. Back then there was no Automatic Zoom HHA's Dilemma: Be a Good Citizen or Fight Extortion Deborah Williams, the CEo and President of the nonprofit Harristown Home for the Aged responded to the knock on the door of her office with a "Come in, Steve," recognizing the distinctive knock of her CFO. "This is not good," began Steve Rightgold, his usually deadpan face betraying signs of the anxiety he was feeling about the news he was about to relay to his boss. He brandished a single piece of paper and thrust it out to Deborah She skimmed it and let out an audible groan. "Not what we need now," she told him. For nearly a decade, Steve had competently kept financial operations running smoothly in a complex environment that required the constant juggling of nearly a dozen different accounts to maintain a positive cash flow situation for the facility. In recent months, accomplishing this successfully had become more of a struggle. With budget cuts beginning to be implemented by the State's Medicaid program and with many of the home's private pay residents falling behind on paying their invoices, HHA was already in financial distress, as were virtually all of its competitors, nonprofit and for-profit alike. In theory, HHA was a charity, exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(cX3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and also exempt from paying local property taxes levied by the county, city of Harristown, and the Ha School District. The reality, as Ms. Williams was often reminded was that HHA doled out only a minimum level of charity to the needy. And by any calculation that amount was usually less than that provided by most of the for-profit competitors in her community Perhaps at one time in its early history. in the early 20th century, HHA had operated li a traditional charity, considering itself to be old-age home, accepting residents who had place else to go regardless of whether they needed health care. Back then there was no